Re: [Amforth-devel] heap and allot question

[Bernard M. <bme...@gm...>]

Hi Matthias,

Sounds great. Bear in mind that the multitask.frt example which uses heap,
will need to be updated too. I havn't checked for others ..

Cheers,
Bernard

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Matthias Trute <mt...@we...> wrote:

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> Bernard,
> Bernard Mentink wrote
>
> >> please note: heap is not a forth value, it gives only a eeprom
> >> cell address.
> >
> > Hi Matthias,
> >
> > Shouldn't heap return the address of the top of heap, you can't
> > actually use the 4 offset until you use e@ to get the address so it
> > should be included in the "heap" word. That would also make it ans
> > compatible right?
>
> HEAP itself is not part of ANS94 / I do not find it there at least.
>
> Looking at the code that uses HEAP directly, most of them use the
> sequence "heap e@" so changing it to a real VALUE should be an
> easy task.
>
> > I realize that if you change "heap" then some words that use heap
> > will have to be re-coded ..
>
> Oh, don't worry too much. "most" code use ALLOT (that is part of ANS).
> heap
> is pretty much amforth specific. If no-one objects, I'll review most
> of the EEPROM
> based variables and turn them into real VALUEs.
>
> : allot heap + to heap ;
>
> (The sequence could be factored into a word of its own: add-to, ,
> (comma) has a similiar
> code)
>
> Matthias
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